NAVIGATE is an approved reseller, trainer and support agent of the SAFE FME software suite. FME® is an easy to use, general purpose spatial data translator.

If you need to quickly move data from one GIS system to another, There are a variety of FME® products to meet your needs. FME Desktop is the entry level product. Other products have all the functionality of FME Desktop plus additional functionality. The range include FME for ESRi and FME for Smallworld.

FME® is the gateway in and out of spatial database systems If you are setting up a spatial database, you’ll need to load your existing data into it. Support of ESRI’s SDE and other high-end GIS packages (Oracle Spatial) greatly simplifies this process.

FME® is a semantic translator The OpenGIS® specification describes a semantic translator as a key part of any attempt to interoperate with spatial data. A semantic translator allows changes to data models to be accomplished during translation.

Coupled with FME® are reading, writing and processing modules developed by Safe Software and third party companies enabling the FME® semantic processing capability to be extended to move between a wide variety of GIS formats. FME®’s powerful functions, factories, and scripting language can be used to transform your input data into the most convenient representation in your output format.

In addition, a wide variety of traditional GIS operations can be performed by FME®, and in many cases, more efficiently than with GIS packages. Operations such as coordinate system (projection) conversion, overlay, intersection, polygon formation, attribute merging, and more can be scripted and run efficiently. Input and output formats can be any of those support, and they may even be the same GIS package.